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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Members of Alpha Phi Alpha, Upsilon chapter, participate in the annual Spring Step Show, titled "Stomp The Hill", on Saturday at the Lied Center. National Pan-Hellenic Council played host to the event.
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South BEST in the nation
Accounting students from the University of Kansas bumped the School of Business up to the number four school in the nation with the highest Certified Public Accountant exam passing rate for first-time candidates without advanced degrees.
CAMPUS School of Business rises to fourth best in the nation
Paul Mason, professor of accounting, said the success of KU accounting students would help attract new students and job recruiters to the School of Business.
"This ranking reflects well on the quality of the accounting program and the KU School of Business," Mason said in a press release."There is no question that we have some of the best students in the country, and this ranking helps highlight that fact."
According to a School of Business press release, 72 percent of the KU students who took the Uniform CPA exam passed on their first attempt. Nearly 22,000 candidates across the country took the exam.
The CPA exam is a test that people must pass in order to qualify as a certified public accountant in any of the 55 U.S. jurisdictions, according to the CPA exam Web site.
— Andy Greenhaw
INTERNATIONAL Zimbabwe citizens wait for election results
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's main opposition party claimed an early lead Sunday in elections, seeking to thwart any possible vote rigging by President Robert Mugabe amid an ominous silence from the Electoral Commission and the deployment of security forces.
"Why are we not getting the results? It's very clear to me Mugabe wants to steal this election," said Hapisson Mate, a 23-year-old first-time voter.
Earlier people celebrated in the streets, dancing, singing and giving each other the openhanded wave that is the opposition party's symbol.
But by sundown, as frustrations grew more than 24 hours after polls closed, riot police and other security forces were patrolling the capital's densely populated suburbs, according to independent election monitors.
Discontent with Mugabe has grown nationwide and the election was seen as the toughest challenge to his 28-year rule. Unemployment stands at 80 percent — the same percentage that survives on less than $1 a day.
In previous elections, partial results have been announced within hours of voting ending.
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Meet your Student Senator with Ethan Zipf-Sigler, graduate senator
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
As far as Student Senators go, Ethan Zipf-Sigler isn't involved. He's not in any clubs and not affiliated with any coalition or special interest. And he said that was his greatest asset.
"Grad students bring understanding and objectivity" to Senate, Zipf-Sigler said.
Eric Foss, a fellow law senator and Zipf-Sigler's roommate, encouraged Zipf-Sigler to get involved with Senate because of his objectivity.
"He has a firm commitment to getting things right, not getting involved in political interests," Foss said. "He's one of the most intelligent and least partisan people I've ever met."
Zipf-Sigler, a second-year law student, serves on the finance committee. He said that in finance, it was especially important to include the "balanced approach" of the ten graduate students in Senate.
"A lot of discipline is needed; often, in the past, the committee has let almost anyone get away with spending funds," he said.
He also emphasized the importance of the finance committee itself.
"That's where Senate makes a big impact on every student's life."
— the way in which it spends their money, he said.
Lennea Carty, also a finance committee senator, described Zipf-Sigler as a natural leader with a "devotion to ethical debate and uncovering the truth." Carty cited Zipf-Sigler's vocal opposition to the highly contested Women's and Non-Revenue Sports Fee as an example of his willingness to take on controversial issues.
Zipf-Sigler, who Carty said had aimed to promote "fiscal responsibility" without detriment to students, said he was happy with the way this term of Senate had gone.
"We've spent almost all of our budget, but not all," he said. "I think that's a sign of a good committee — it does what it's supposed to do, spends the money it's supposed to spend, but doesn't go overboard."
"It's something for me to do"
Zipf-Sigler said. "But really, it is fun. It's strange to say going to three meetings a week would be fun, but it is. You feel as if you've gotten something done — even if it's just spending other people's money."
Despite his enjoyment, Zipf-
Zipf-Sigler said he was happy to be involved with Senate partially because he found himself with more time on his hands than when he was an undergraduate.
Sigler, who debated and wrote for The Hilltop Monitor, the student newspaper of William Jewell College, in Liberty, Mo., will not be involved with Senate next year. He said he made the decision to end his Senate career so that he could continue to be a part of the elections commission, which requires objectivity from its members.
As law representative and adjudicator for the elections commission, Zipf-Sigler uses his law knowledge to oversee and moderate complaints hearings, which he said, like many Senate debates, can get pretty heated.
The main focus of the elections commission is outreach, Zipf-Sigler said. This means increasing voter turn out by staging a debate and opening poll sites across campus on election day, as well as making the importance of voting better known.
"We're just trying to get students aware," he said. "The more you remind people, the more it's likely they'll turn up."
"This year, it's been pretty tame
"There three really good sets of ideas," he said. "It's important students choose for themselves which they want in control. We each pay over $700 in fees every year. That's a lot of money, which will be controlled by one of those candidates."
Zipf-Sigler has no affiliation with any Senate presidential candidate, but strongly encourages all
This year, it's been pretty tame just complaints about late filing and campaign advertising," he said. "There hasn't been anything terribly controversial like voter intimidation or anything."
students to vote.
He also said that voting is important because "each person is unique" in the way that he or she makes decisions that impact all students.
"It's amazing," he said. "Smart, well-informed people come to all kinds of different opinions on the same thing and sometimes they just can't agree."
Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
on campus
The public event "Junior Day" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Kansas Union. Registration is required.
"Osher Institute:Recovering a Lost Kansas Lansdcape: A Novelist Explores Personal History" will begin at 2 p.m. at the Tallgrass Creek Retirement Community.
The lecture "At Last, absolute radiometric ages for the entire Pleistocene glacial section in central North America" will begin at 4 p.m. in 412 Lindley.
The Physics & Astronomy Departmental Colloquium Do We Know How QCD Works Inside Hadrons?" will begin at 4 p.m. in 2074 Malott.
The film "Vremia zhatvy (Harvest Time)" by Marina Razbezhkina will beign at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
"Souls on Ice: Human Conquest and Study of the Antarctic icecap" will begin at 7 p.m. at Continuing Education.
The public event "Indigenous Thinking in a Time of Climat Change" will begin at 7:30 p.m.at the Dole Institute of Politics.
The concert "Faculty Artist Steven Spooner, piano" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
corrections
Friday's column "Coincidence too much to ignore" misstated Kansas played its first NCAA tournament game in Detroit since 1988. It should have read that Kansas was making its first Sweet Sixteen appearance in Detroit since 1988 as the team played in Auburn Hills, Mich., on March 17, 2006.
A photo caption for Tuesday's story "Platforms address fee spending" misstated the hometown of Jean Menager. Menager is a sophomore from Auburn, Kan.
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